Ecosystems

  1. Ecosystems

    Marine census: Surprising number of creatures bipolar

    Census of Marine Life offers a preview of massive international census gives fuller count, shows some sea species at both poles.

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  2. Humans

    AAAS: March of the Hungry Penguins

    Patagonian penguins have become sentinels of climate change and human impacts on the marine world.

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  3. Agriculture

    AAAS: Stress Can Make Plants More Nutritious

    People who aren't veggie lovers might want to seek out types of produce that deliver an especially big nutrient bang for the gram.

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  4. Ecosystems

    Flowering plants welcome other life

    When angiosperms diversified 100 million years ago, they opened new niches for ants, plants and frogs.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Overly Hungry for Frogs

    Frogs are shipped half-way round the world to sate human appetites for this lean white meat.

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  6. Ecosystems

    Pacific Northwest salmon poisoning killer whales

    A protected population of resident orcas around Vancouver Island and Puget Sound is the planet’s most PCB-contaminated mammals, says one researcher.

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  7. Agriculture

    Candy cane strategy sweetens life for goldenrods

    Goldenrods temporarily duck their heads during pest season

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  8. Earth

    Obama administration should lead energy transition

    R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.

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  9. Ecosystems

    Thwarting Tree Poachers

    A new federal rule makes it harder to destroy protected forests.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Honeybee CSI: Why dead bodies can’t be found

    Virus could explain one symptom of colony collapse.

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  11. Life

    Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

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  12. Ecosystems

    Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton

    HarperCollins, 2008, 460 p., $28.95.

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